Flowers Opening in Late Autumn

The worst of a blocked time has been reached, and the ease that might follow is absent. We take the two key words of the first line from the hexagrams for obstruction and peace in the Book of Changes, an identification of our own. Flowers come out far too late in the year. People fail to get along, and spirits make off with valuables.

This is a blunt instance of Kyo, Bad fortune, the grade the book prints for the lot. Bloom arrives in the wrong season, goodwill breaks down and what was kept is taken by thieves no one can see.

Today's equivalent might be effort that arrives too late for its season while a group's goodwill wears thin and resources disappear with no clear explanation. Each of those three is a different kind of problem, even when they arrive together.